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cases of scarlet fever at home. These cases were, of course,
selected cases, and in no case was there reason to suppose
that the public safety was endangered through this. If
these cases can be maintained at home during an epidemic
period of scarlet fever, they can, with equal advantage, be
retained during an epidemic period of measles, and by this
means more use can be made of the hospital beds of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board by providing hospital accommodation
for the treatment of measles as opposed to the
isolation of scarlet fever.
Maternity and Child Welfare work has continued to grow
during the year. The attendances at the Welfare Centres
have increased from 2,249 in 1918, to 23,156 in 1921, a fact
which speaks for itself.
I have again to express my appreciation of the work of the
staff of the Public Health Department and to thank the
Public Health and Housing and the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committees for the sympathetic consideration given
to the recommendations I have made and for their keen attention
to the health problems which have been brought before
them during the year.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN MACMILLAN.